Gmail Adds Option to Ditch “On Behalf Of”
July 31st, 2009 (11:30am) Simon Mackie 8 CommentsTweet This (27)
Up until yesterday, one of the really annoying things about Gmail was that if you wanted to use it to send email from an address other than your Gmail address (a company email address, say), it would add your Gmail address into the Sender header in the email. This would result in your email being displayed as being from “myname@gmail.com On Behalf Of myname@company.com” in some email clients, like Microsoft Outlook. That looks quite unprofessional, and made it hard to use Gmail to manage corporate email without forking out for a Google Apps account.
Well, yesterday Google added the option to send your email using your own SMTP server, meaning that it won’t need to add your Gmail address to the Sender header. In other words, no more of that unprofessional-looking “On Behalf Of.”
If you want to set this up in your Gmail account, first you’ll need to make sure that you have the login details for your SMTP server. If this is for a company email account, you might need to ask the IT department. Go into Settings->Account. In the “Send mail as:” section, you’ll see a list of your accounts. Click “edit info.”
Click “Next step” in the popup, and then select to send the email through your own SMTP server. Fields will appear where you enter your login credentials.
Enter your username and password. Click “Save changes” and your email recipients won’t see “On Behalf Of” ever again.
Do you use Gmail for corporate email?
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no more
“myname@gmail.com On Behalf Of myname@company.com”
wanderings for revieved mail from gmail -i hope
Thanks for the info.
A Google Apps Premium account doesn’t prevent this problem, all that does it meerly allow you to use Gmail without any ads and with extra disk space.
The ‘on behalf of’ problem still exists.
The SMTP setup option isn’t available to all Apps users, but can be applied globally by the domain admin through the Gmail Control Panel.
As far as I know, only Microsoft Outlook 2003 will display the ‘on behalf of’ message, Outlook 2007 and Hotmail display the ’sent as’ email address without the original email.
FINALLY
now my underlying gmail address is not revealed in headers AND I can use gmail to withhold my ip address too
win win
Now we need better header filtering options
This post here also gives info on an SMTP server that can be used with this new feature from Gmail:
http://www.smtp2go.com/blog/gmail-on-behalf-of-smtp-server/
If your domain is managed with google apps, you can set “smtp.gmail.com” and user/pass you@yourdomain.com/password as custom smtp.
Works great! You do not need to set up your own smtp..
In my gmail account, the option “Use your other email provider’s SMTP servers” don’t appear under the “edit info” section. The only thing I can choose is name and email address. What am I doing wrong?
Just like Niklas, I have no SMTP option available to configure
So I figure this out: first you have to click “Send mail from another address”, then you can configure it.
Niklas